Cranley Onslow

Cranley Onslow (8 June 1926-13 March 2001) was the Conservative Party MP for Woking from 1964 to 1997, succeeding Harold Watkinson and preceding Humfrey Malins.

Biography
Cranley Onslow was born in Woking, Surrey, England in 1926, and he joined the British Army in 1944 and served as an MI6 field agent in Burma. In 1960, he resigned from the civil service and became active in politics, serving on the Dartford Rural Council, on the Kent County Council, and then as the Conservative Party MP for Woking. He called for lower taxes on the middle class and a reduction in third world aid, and he became chair of the Conservative aviation committee. Onslow served as Parliamentary Under Secretary of State from 1972 to 1974 and as a Minister of State in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1983, and he chaired the 1922 Committee from 1984 to 1992, becoming the most powerful backbencher under Margaret Thatcher. He left office as MP in 1997, when he became a life peer, and he died in 2001.